Growing for the future
December 12, 2008
This is the final part of a three-part series, Navigating the Financiapocoalypse. It’s intended as a get-started guide for people just starting down the path of actively managing their money.
Saving money in and of itself is representative of a longer view of life than someone who blows their whole paycheck every month. But saving for your retirement and other really, really long term goals is different from saving for your next car or vacation. Before we go any further in: I am not a certified financial planner, and I haven’t been doing this all that long — I can only tell you what I have found, and crunch some numbers as examples.
The sooner you start saving for your retirement, the better. Well, that’s obvious, you might say, but just how much better are we talking about? Let’s look at a couple scenarios.
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